CNN: Showing compassion, accepting cultures: Preventing suicide in the Latino community

March 27, 2019

“Suicide is a public health issue that affects people from every race, every age, every gender and every class,” explains Dr. Barbara Robles-Ramamurthy, child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Long School of Medicine at UT Health in San Antonio. “But Latina teens have suicidal ideations and want to kill themselves more frequently.” Read the story




Public invited to free prostate cancer symposium

February 8, 2019

The Department of Urology is hosting a Precision Medicine in Prostate Cancer Symposium for the general public that will feature leading physicians and experts on prostate cancer. The free event will be from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 2, in the Holly Auditorium on the Long campus. Prostate cancer survivors, patients, friends, family […]


United Way assisting federal employees

January 23, 2019

Through the annual State Employee Charitable Campaign, held every fall, you may have given generously to the United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County. Thank you for your support! The United Way is now assisting individuals and families of federal employees affected by the government shutdown. If you know of such individuals, let them […]


South Texas Oncology Roundtable

December 20, 2018

On September 5, 2018, the UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center hosted a roundtable discussion with esteemed cancer leaders from UT Health San Antonio and MD Anderson Cancer Center to talk about the impact of cancer in San Antonio and how collaboration in patient care and research is essential to improving not only […]